Welcome from Chair Helen Li

Welcome to Duke ECE!

Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering is the home of world-class teaching and research, with a focus on the broad areas characteristic of a leading electrical and computer engineering department.

The Duke degree serves as a launching point from which our graduates achieve leadership roles in a wide array of fields. In addition to working in traditional and emerging engineering fields many Duke ECE graduates pursue careers in business, law and medicine.

Our graduate program and research enterprise are recognized for their excellence and impact.

A unifying theme of our research is its interdisciplinary nature—characterized by significant, funded research programs that actively engage Duke faculty from across engineering, the applied sciences and medicine.

Our department is an important meeting place for the applied sciences at Duke.

Many of our faculty members hold joint and secondary appointments in other departments within our engineering school and Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences—including in computer science, mathematics, statistics and physics.

Our undergraduate students are among the most talented anywhere. The degrees they earn are characterized by a firm engineering foundation grounded by Duke’s exceptional strengths in the liberal arts.

This environment yields students with engineering breadth and depth, buttressed by superior communication skills and an appreciation for how engineering fits within and contributes to society.

Major research institutions and corporations eagerly seek graduates of our master’s and PhD programs. Additionally, like our undergraduates, many of our graduate students pursue careers in business and law, with a significant recent trend toward entrepreneurship. 

I hope that you find this website informative and that it captures the excitement embodied in our growing department.